Re: OT: babel and english

Roger Mills wrote:

> Incidentally, there is a large group of closely related ("Toraja")
> languages in central Sulawesi (Indonesia)-- they distinguish them
> according to the word for "no".
Dante, of course, sorted the Romance languages according to their
word for "yes":  si, oc, o-il > oui.  He also noted "sipa" as the
yes-word in Bolognese.

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